Records show state officials knew for years about problems at New York Service Network, including allegations of overbilling and violations of patients’ rights exposed by a ProPublica investigation.
When ProPublica first wrote about the Brooklyn drug rehab program New York Service Network (NYSN) last September, the outpatient facility only six months earlier had won a fresh license renewal from the state agency that oversees
New York City’s shadowy network of residences for indigent addicts and alcoholics, or “sober homes”, have been found to be unsafe, unsanitary and non-assisting to residents’ needs.
Beds in closets. Vermin infestations. Drug-dealing house managers. Fire hazards hidden from building inspectors. These are just some of the conditions turned up by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice during a year-long examination of New York City’s shadowy network of residences for indigent addicts and alcoholics. John Jay’s
It didn’t take long for Lillian Imbert to conclude that her outpatient drug treatment program wasn’t helping her recovery. Fellow patients appeared to nod out in group therapy sessions that she found repetitive and shallow. They begged her to sell them her clean urine to fool the clinic’s weekly drug tests. The clinic itself was dingy and run down,
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's allies seemed to give a big old raspberry to presidential aspirant Mitt Romney on the front page of the New York Post today. Anonymous sources told the paper that Romney demanded Christie agree to resign the
Joseph Caramadre has spent a lifetime scouring the fine print. He's hardwired to seek the angle, an overlooked clause in a contract that allows him to transform a company's carelessness into a personal windfall. He calls these insights his "creations," and he numbers them. There have been about 19 in his lifetime, he says. For example, there was
